Alabama

Searchers find missing jet ski rider's body in Tennessee River

DECATUR, Alabama — Searchers have found the body of a man who's been missing since an accident on the Tennessee River last week.

Members of the Limestone County Rescue Squad located the body of 42-year-old R.C. Mathews in the river on Sunday. His remains were located about 10 miles from where he was last seen after falling off a personal watercraft on April 18.

Witnesses told authorities the Morgan County man was riding a jet ski with a woman when both fell off. Mathews couldn't make it back to shore.